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Area News
Friday, May 2,1986 H i g h P o i n t i E n t e r p r i se Section B
Black College Fund Solicits City After 25 Years
By Teri Capshaw
STAFF WHITER
For the first time in more than 25 years, the United
Negro College Fund has targeted High Point for a fund-raising
campaign.
And optimism ran high as campaign goals and
chairmen were announced at a kickoff luncheon Thurs­day
at Top of the Mart.
Plato Wilson and Nathanael Morehead will oversee
the High Point campaign that has a goal of raising
$76,000 by Dec. 31. Corporate contributions are targeted
to be $50,000 of the total, and the remainder will come
from civic, community and church groups through a
telethon effort.
"We are still in the organizational stages of our
campagin, but you will hear much from us in the near
future," said Morehead. "We want to make this a
banner year."
Morehead told the 30 guests that he was one of four
High Pointers who had last worked on the UNCF
cpmnaien in thft 1950s and early 1960s. "But that was
Nathanael
Morehead
Isaac
Miller
Wayne
Cooper
i> Alma Adams
nothing like what we have planned in this calendar year,
so don't fail us."
"I've read a ream of papers to motivate me already
and when I get motivated I go full steam," Wilson said.
"This is a tremendous cause and High Point has not had
an effort to answer the United Negro College Fund
F r o m P a g e 1
cause. We need to be heard from."
Wayne J. Cooper, area development director of
UNCF, said campaigns in Winston-Salem and Greens­boro
are still in the organizational stages and that the
Triad's total fund-raising goal has not been decided.
High Point's campaign was kicked off first because
it's new here, said Cooper. "We're expecting a very
successful effort."
UNCF was founded in 1944 to raise money for
institutions that are historically black. There are 43
member institutions, which are private and fully ac­credited.
Six member schools are in North Carolina.
Bennett College in Greensboro is the only member in the
Triad.
Bennett will receive 75 percent of the amount raised
in this year's Triad campaign, officials said.
And Bennett's president. Dr. Isaac H. Miller Jr., was
on hand Thursday to stress the school's ties to UNCF.
"We're always struggling to meet payrolls, balance
the budget and maintain quality," he said. "Without the
Fund's effort we could not function.
"Without it, tuition and room and board would be
raised so high we'd price ourselves out of the market,"
be said.
UNCF provides about 8 percent of Bennett's operat­ing
budget, Miller said.
He said contributing to UNCF was not a philanthropic
gesture. "It's an investment in a productive, pro-active,
creative and more tranquil socio-economic order," he
said. "It would be a tragedy for us to leave untapped the
potential that is resident in young minds."
"United Negro College Fund exists solely to raise
money for member institutions so they can maintain the
high quality of education," Marilyn Baldwin, assistant
area director for UNCF, added.
The six N.C. member schools received more than $2.8
million dollars from the UNCF last year.. Nationally,
$35.5 million was raised last year.
Fund-raising campaigns are conducted in all 50
states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
This year, Gov. Jim Martin is serving as honorary
(See BLACK COLLEGES Qf 2B)
This arrangement allowed
students to document and
survey historical background,
as well as related issues and
problems crucial to the Afro-
American in the visual arts. It
also gave the students the op­portunity
to engage in first­hand
dialogue and interaction
with noted Afro-American ar­tists
around the country.
In preparation for the phone
calls, each artist submitted
slides, along with other perti­nent
data and biographical in­formation
for class discussion
and study. In return, students
sent Questions to each artist
which could be discussed during
the telephone interviews. All of
the information collected was
organized into an instructional
package which became
available for student, faculty
and community use.
Adams' fellowship will con­tinue
her course of documenting
the contributions of Afro-
American artists to society, and
especially, to students. In an ef­fort
to rectify past misundertan-dings
about the contributions of
Afro-American artists, Adams
plans to: accurately identify ar­tists
of Afro-American descent
throughout various regions of
the United States; record perti­nent
and accurte data which
substantiates the true story
about Afro-American artists;
uncover themes and visual
symbols associated with black
artistic expressions; describe
the visual art influence of
Africanism on black families;
and increase the knowledge
base, understanding and ap­preciation
of contributions to
the arts made by non-European
cultures.
"Much of the exclusion (of
knowledge) is not just in higher
education," Adams said.
"When I was coming through, I
never knew there were other ar­tists
like me." She also pointed
out that there is only one Afro-
American art textbook that Is
still in print. Adams finds this
lack of knowledge "alarming"
and a "disservice." She added
that she wants to eventually
disseminate the information"
learned while doing research,
which will also involve
documenting some of the hun­ches
she already has.
Adams' study will focus on
five regions of the country —
the southeast, mid-central, nor­theast
mid-Atlantic, and
southwest — so she can do a
comparative analysis. One of
the questions she wants
answered is "does where you
live affect what you do?"
Going back to her theories on
the importance of visual im­ages,
Adams added that 'even
when you go back to children,
and their attempts to read,
they're full of visual images —
that's why I say arts are basic
— they do help students learn
and differentiate meanings.
"A lot of people don't see that
— they think it's just an artistic
\niC-- ft
expression — but i
£\
integral to
learning.''
Adams also feels the .ex-.
perience will help her be a bet­ter
teacher. "I just believe you
have to learn by doing, and I
don't think any one can be an ef­fective
teacher by sitting in the
classroom. I toy to stay as
knowledgeable as I cant and the
only way I can do that is to get
out in the community and in­teract
as much as I can." .<
While Afro-American artists
have contributed much to
American culture, "WeVe just
not received our .appropriate
place in textbooks," Adams
said. "I'm not going to say it's
not due to racism, because I
think some of it is, and we've
got to kind of catch up."
There is a multi-cultural rela­tionship
between students and
teachers in art'. classrooms,
Adams feels, and today's
teachers aren't adequately
prepared to provide informa­tion
on Afro-American contribu­tions
to culture. "Teacher train­ing
institutions are where it's
going to have to begin r-
America is no melting pot — it's
a stew pot — it's not a blending
together (of cultures) but we're
all thrown together as in­dividual
pieces. 'Multi-cultural'
doesn't just mean race, it's .
religion, socio-economic status,
etc., and just because you put a
teacher and a child in a
classroom, that doesn't
guarantee anything."
Many students doat realize
their own self-worth, which
hampers them when they try to
understand people from dif­ferent
cultures, Adams feels.
Accordingly, "the significance
of black culture has never
permeated — that's why we still
have Black History Month.
That's what my whole
philosophy is about — I know
what I missed when I was com­ing
through. -We focus on dif­ferences
as being deficiencies,
and that's not what it's about."
Adams' study of contort'"
porary artists will be a start in
bringing understanding of a
long-neglected cultural
heritage to the attention of
Americans. She will Interview
artists and review theirworks.
The National Conference of Ar­tists
also will be involved in the
screening process to identify ar­tists
in various regions that will
be included. All the information
compiled will then be included
in a curriculum package for use
In humanities instruction. It
also will be used for a future
publication.
Adams, who recently married
Robert Rouse, a staff manager
a North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company in
Greensboro, holds B.S. and
M.S. degrees from North
Carolina A&T State University,
and a Ph.D. from The Ohio
State University. A High Poinj
native, she has two children
from a previous marriage, Billy
Eugene and Linda Jeanelle.
Y^C, Adams Aw
A desire to set the record
straight about the contribu­tions,
history and works of con­temporary
Afro-American ar­tists
has led to the granting of a
fellowship to Dr. Alma S.
Adams, professor and chairper­son
of toe Department of Visual
Arts and Humane Studies at
Bennett College. Adams also is
vice chairman of the
Greensboro City Board of
Education. ^ ^ „
The fellowship, '-sponsored hy
the Southern Fellowships Fund,
an agency Qf toe CounciL of
1/t *fc n^tftl. c tx^oJl fetofy Fellowsmp
THE BIG DAY HEARS—In preparation for their May 11 commencement exer­cises,
graduating seniors at Bennett College received their robes at the women's
college traditional Senior Day service. Among the jubilant seniors participating in
the event was Omotayo Otoki, who is congratulated by Ms. Isaac ML Miller, Jr.,
wife of the college president. (Photo by Otis Hairston).
" " % • > • " . • —
Southern Fellowships Fund 4 f t
the Council of Southern Univer­sities,
Inc., is awarded annually *
for postdoctoral study to faculty q
members of historically black
colleges. Funds for the program
are granted by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
Adams will take a leave of
absence for the period of the
grant, from fall 1986-August
1987, from her teaching duties
tat Bennett- College.
Bringing the contributions of
Afro-American artists to the at-tentiorfof
the public has been a
long time interest of Adams. "I
think a lot of the information
provided to students is inac­curate,
and that's just as bad as
not having any information at
all," she said in a recent inter­view
in her office at Bennett
College.
A lot of the problem in pro­viding
accurate information is
that "most of the writing (on
this subject) has been done by
non-African writers/' she add­ed.
'*The best way to find out
about-a~people is to get the in­formation
from those people —
that's why I went to Africa" last
summer.
. On' that trip, to Senegal,
organized by the National Con­ference
of Artists, Adams found
that "the only difference bet­ween
African artists and Afro-
American artists is distance."
At a joint exhibit in Senegal, "it
was amazing — you couldn t tell
who did what," which shows
that "visual art is a universal
language because of the visual
syrpbols." As a result of that
trip, Adams theh'cHd'a project
on the influence of Senegal! ar­tists
on European artists.
Another project she started at
Bennett, after earning her doc­toral
degree from Ohio
State University, was "Dial-An-
Artist." The purpose was to ex­pose
students to accurate infor­mation
about Afro-American
artists.
The course, titled Dial-An-
Artist Afro-American Art
History, was structured around
an amplified telephone hookup,
installed in the art classroom.
• See Adams. PaggT^y Adams1
^ w - t r i g ^ f i t j f\.C>
••) • ) , LYr f\Lr Gordon named
Citicorp Fellow
April Gordon, a freshman at Ben­nett
College, is a newly-named Fel­low
in the Citicorp Fellows Pro-gram.
She is one of
40 students at
United Negro
College Fund
schools who re­ceives
an annu­al
scholarship
of $2,500, plus
• a Citicorp offi­cer
who serves
as mentor
throughout the
student's col­lege
years. Gordon's mentor is Heil-wig
Higgins, vice president of Citi­corp
Retail Services, New York
City.
The fellows were honored at an
April dinner held at the.Martin Lu­ther
/ King Memorial Library in
Washington, D.C.
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Eden Student At Bennett
Is R&Hpient Of Awards
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Greensboro News & Record, Sunday, May 11, J986
Bennett selects dean of students m
Donna Williams of Eden, a
sophomore at Bennett College in
Greensboro, is one of a select group
of students recognized during
Recognition* Day exercise on' 'tllirt
college campus.
She was presented the Cressie
Gordon
Thomas Haven Book Scholarship for
outstanding academic achievement,
the Florence Reeves Award- for
service to the college community,
the Gerald Truesdale Health Science
Award for the highest' cumulative
average among sophomores in
health science Studies and the
Performing Arts Company Service
Award fa addition, she was "In-'
ducted into the Beta Kappa Chi
Science Honor Society.
Williams is the daughter' of Mrs.
Margaret Reece of 121^ S. Hundley
Drive, Eden.
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Donna Williams
Dorothy J. Harris has been
named dearr of students at Bennett
College.
In announcing the appointment at
the college's recent Recognition Day
service, Dr. Isaac H. Miller Jr. said
Harris' long association with the col­lege
as instructor and administrator
provides the experience essential to
reinforce linkage between all func­tions
within student development
and the total college community.
Harris received her undergradu­ate
and graduate degrees from N.C.
A&T State University, and began
her professional career as a public
school teacher. In 1969, following a
stint as curriculum consultant for
the Institute of Services to Educa­tion
at Washington, D.C, she be­came
an instructor of physical
sciences at Bennett. She was instru­mental
in establishing a comprehen­sive
freshman studies program and j
directed the federally-supported de­velopmental
studies program in the
early 1970s.
Harris took leave from Bennett to
complete doctoral studies at Rut­gers
University and, in 1983, re-
Dorothy J. Harris
turned to Bennett as associate dean
of academic support program.
Harris is a member of St. Stephen J
United Church of Christ and vices
president of its Board of Trustees. |
She is a member of the Alpha Kappa [
Alpha Sorority.
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TRIBUNE
MOUNT OLIVE, N. C.
MAY-13-86
iss Bowden
awarded
scholarship
Laurinda Katrice Bowden, 19, a
sophomore at Bennett College in
Greensboro,' was among students
honored recently at the college's
annual recognition day activities.
She was presented the $3,000 Joanne
Blackstone-Boyette scholarship.
Miss Bowden is majoring in the
area of Clothing and Textiles.
A 1984 graduate of Southern
Wayne High School, she is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Bowden of route S, Dudley. Bowden
is FFA instructor and advisor at
Southern Wayne and Mrs. Bowden is
a seventh-grade teacher at Mount
"Hw Junior High School____
IM
(ii--•—-. ick Gomnirarrity $50,000
"By Ruthell Howard
Peacemaker'Staff Writer
A retired, white' Greensbo
• theatre busir ess woman g
; $50,000 .back tothe black
• munity last week to show n
appreciation for the black
band enjoyed beginning in the
husband, Max, came to
-Greensboro 55 years ago to pur
chase the . closed Palace
Theatre on East Market btree
and open it as the city's f
"theatre-.that-catered., to t
: rpsidents. "That venture ga
the couple" their* start in t
theatre business, and led
couole's opening of an
black, community-located
theatre, the Gem on South As
, Street, as well as the
eatre in High Point, which
LAURINDA BOWDEN
. /
« :
also catered to blacks, and
several drive-in', theatres in
North Carolina and Virginia..;
Not forgetting the financial
catalyst Greensboro's black
community'- provided, Mrs.
Zager; in a tearful presentation
last Thursday night, ..-gave.
$25,000 checi-s to N.C. A&T
^State University and Bennett
College, the city's two
historically-black education in­stitutions.
V'My husband would be so pro­ud
that a donation was made to
the. black community'' said
. - . Zager, who noted that her
|. special love for Greensboro and
--'•'the black people who gave us
... our start" moved her to make
the donations to the two schools.
; "I'm not only doing this to
help the colleges, I'm doing it
because people should know
about what a good job A&T and
C1A&T-Bennett
are doing in this com­munity,"
Mrs. Zager added.
•Mrs. Zager, whose husband
died last year, made her
presentation during an evening
banquet at the Greensboro
Sheraton attended by a
20-member audience that in­cluded
members of her family ,
and officials from both schools.
• During what she called her
"finest hour," Mrs. Zager said .
| she wished she could do more
for Bennett and A&T.
A&T Vice Chancellor for
Development Albert E. Smith
said the school will place a pla-aue
in the school's theatre in
honor of the late Mr. Zager, and
A&T Chancellor Edwdard B.
Fort along with Bennett Presi­dent
Isaac Miller said the dona­tions
will provide much-needed
full length stage curtains, por-
• table props and lighting fixtures
at the two schools.
Smith added, "For a long
time, we've needed full stage
length drapes in the Paul
Robeson Theatre. We hope that
within the next year, you can
come back and be the first per­son
to draw the curtain."
Fort, stressing the impor­tance
of A&T's theatre, cited
the accomplishments of Arnold
Pinnix, a graduate of the school
who was the first student from a
Southern university to win the
Lorraine Hansberry award for
playwriting. "That's an exam-
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Area News
Friday, May 2,1986 H i g h P o i n t i E n t e r p r i se Section B
Black College Fund Solicits City After 25 Years
By Teri Capshaw
STAFF WHITER
For the first time in more than 25 years, the United
Negro College Fund has targeted High Point for a fund-raising
campaign.
And optimism ran high as campaign goals and
chairmen were announced at a kickoff luncheon Thurs­day
at Top of the Mart.
Plato Wilson and Nathanael Morehead will oversee
the High Point campaign that has a goal of raising
$76,000 by Dec. 31. Corporate contributions are targeted
to be $50,000 of the total, and the remainder will come
from civic, community and church groups through a
telethon effort.
"We are still in the organizational stages of our
campagin, but you will hear much from us in the near
future," said Morehead. "We want to make this a
banner year."
Morehead told the 30 guests that he was one of four
High Pointers who had last worked on the UNCF
cpmnaien in thft 1950s and early 1960s. "But that was
Nathanael
Morehead
Isaac
Miller
Wayne
Cooper
i> Alma Adams
nothing like what we have planned in this calendar year,
so don't fail us."
"I've read a ream of papers to motivate me already
and when I get motivated I go full steam," Wilson said.
"This is a tremendous cause and High Point has not had
an effort to answer the United Negro College Fund
F r o m P a g e 1
cause. We need to be heard from."
Wayne J. Cooper, area development director of
UNCF, said campaigns in Winston-Salem and Greens­boro
are still in the organizational stages and that the
Triad's total fund-raising goal has not been decided.
High Point's campaign was kicked off first because
it's new here, said Cooper. "We're expecting a very
successful effort."
UNCF was founded in 1944 to raise money for
institutions that are historically black. There are 43
member institutions, which are private and fully ac­credited.
Six member schools are in North Carolina.
Bennett College in Greensboro is the only member in the
Triad.
Bennett will receive 75 percent of the amount raised
in this year's Triad campaign, officials said.
And Bennett's president. Dr. Isaac H. Miller Jr., was
on hand Thursday to stress the school's ties to UNCF.
"We're always struggling to meet payrolls, balance
the budget and maintain quality," he said. "Without the
Fund's effort we could not function.
"Without it, tuition and room and board would be
raised so high we'd price ourselves out of the market,"
be said.
UNCF provides about 8 percent of Bennett's operat­ing
budget, Miller said.
He said contributing to UNCF was not a philanthropic
gesture. "It's an investment in a productive, pro-active,
creative and more tranquil socio-economic order," he
said. "It would be a tragedy for us to leave untapped the
potential that is resident in young minds."
"United Negro College Fund exists solely to raise
money for member institutions so they can maintain the
high quality of education," Marilyn Baldwin, assistant
area director for UNCF, added.
The six N.C. member schools received more than $2.8
million dollars from the UNCF last year.. Nationally,
$35.5 million was raised last year.
Fund-raising campaigns are conducted in all 50
states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
This year, Gov. Jim Martin is serving as honorary
(See BLACK COLLEGES Qf 2B)
This arrangement allowed
students to document and
survey historical background,
as well as related issues and
problems crucial to the Afro-
American in the visual arts. It
also gave the students the op­portunity
to engage in first­hand
dialogue and interaction
with noted Afro-American ar­tists
around the country.
In preparation for the phone
calls, each artist submitted
slides, along with other perti­nent
data and biographical in­formation
for class discussion
and study. In return, students
sent Questions to each artist
which could be discussed during
the telephone interviews. All of
the information collected was
organized into an instructional
package which became
available for student, faculty
and community use.
Adams' fellowship will con­tinue
her course of documenting
the contributions of Afro-
American artists to society, and
especially, to students. In an ef­fort
to rectify past misundertan-dings
about the contributions of
Afro-American artists, Adams
plans to: accurately identify ar­tists
of Afro-American descent
throughout various regions of
the United States; record perti­nent
and accurte data which
substantiates the true story
about Afro-American artists;
uncover themes and visual
symbols associated with black
artistic expressions; describe
the visual art influence of
Africanism on black families;
and increase the knowledge
base, understanding and ap­preciation
of contributions to
the arts made by non-European
cultures.
"Much of the exclusion (of
knowledge) is not just in higher
education," Adams said.
"When I was coming through, I
never knew there were other ar­tists
like me." She also pointed
out that there is only one Afro-
American art textbook that Is
still in print. Adams finds this
lack of knowledge "alarming"
and a "disservice." She added
that she wants to eventually
disseminate the information"
learned while doing research,
which will also involve
documenting some of the hun­ches
she already has.
Adams' study will focus on
five regions of the country —
the southeast, mid-central, nor­theast
mid-Atlantic, and
southwest — so she can do a
comparative analysis. One of
the questions she wants
answered is "does where you
live affect what you do?"
Going back to her theories on
the importance of visual im­ages,
Adams added that 'even
when you go back to children,
and their attempts to read,
they're full of visual images —
that's why I say arts are basic
— they do help students learn
and differentiate meanings.
"A lot of people don't see that
— they think it's just an artistic
\niC-- ft
expression — but i
£\
integral to
learning.''
Adams also feels the .ex-.
perience will help her be a bet­ter
teacher. "I just believe you
have to learn by doing, and I
don't think any one can be an ef­fective
teacher by sitting in the
classroom. I toy to stay as
knowledgeable as I cant and the
only way I can do that is to get
out in the community and in­teract
as much as I can." .<
While Afro-American artists
have contributed much to
American culture, "WeVe just
not received our .appropriate
place in textbooks," Adams
said. "I'm not going to say it's
not due to racism, because I
think some of it is, and we've
got to kind of catch up."
There is a multi-cultural rela­tionship
between students and
teachers in art'. classrooms,
Adams feels, and today's
teachers aren't adequately
prepared to provide informa­tion
on Afro-American contribu­tions
to culture. "Teacher train­ing
institutions are where it's
going to have to begin r-
America is no melting pot — it's
a stew pot — it's not a blending
together (of cultures) but we're
all thrown together as in­dividual
pieces. 'Multi-cultural'
doesn't just mean race, it's .
religion, socio-economic status,
etc., and just because you put a
teacher and a child in a
classroom, that doesn't
guarantee anything."
Many students doat realize
their own self-worth, which
hampers them when they try to
understand people from dif­ferent
cultures, Adams feels.
Accordingly, "the significance
of black culture has never
permeated — that's why we still
have Black History Month.
That's what my whole
philosophy is about — I know
what I missed when I was com­ing
through. -We focus on dif­ferences
as being deficiencies,
and that's not what it's about."
Adams' study of contort'"
porary artists will be a start in
bringing understanding of a
long-neglected cultural
heritage to the attention of
Americans. She will Interview
artists and review theirworks.
The National Conference of Ar­tists
also will be involved in the
screening process to identify ar­tists
in various regions that will
be included. All the information
compiled will then be included
in a curriculum package for use
In humanities instruction. It
also will be used for a future
publication.
Adams, who recently married
Robert Rouse, a staff manager
a North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company in
Greensboro, holds B.S. and
M.S. degrees from North
Carolina A&T State University,
and a Ph.D. from The Ohio
State University. A High Poinj
native, she has two children
from a previous marriage, Billy
Eugene and Linda Jeanelle.
Y^C, Adams Aw
A desire to set the record
straight about the contribu­tions,
history and works of con­temporary
Afro-American ar­tists
has led to the granting of a
fellowship to Dr. Alma S.
Adams, professor and chairper­son
of toe Department of Visual
Arts and Humane Studies at
Bennett College. Adams also is
vice chairman of the
Greensboro City Board of
Education. ^ ^ „
The fellowship, '-sponsored hy
the Southern Fellowships Fund,
an agency Qf toe CounciL of
1/t *fc n^tftl. c tx^oJl fetofy Fellowsmp
THE BIG DAY HEARS—In preparation for their May 11 commencement exer­cises,
graduating seniors at Bennett College received their robes at the women's
college traditional Senior Day service. Among the jubilant seniors participating in
the event was Omotayo Otoki, who is congratulated by Ms. Isaac ML Miller, Jr.,
wife of the college president. (Photo by Otis Hairston).
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Southern Fellowships Fund 4 f t
the Council of Southern Univer­sities,
Inc., is awarded annually *
for postdoctoral study to faculty q
members of historically black
colleges. Funds for the program
are granted by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
Adams will take a leave of
absence for the period of the
grant, from fall 1986-August
1987, from her teaching duties
tat Bennett- College.
Bringing the contributions of
Afro-American artists to the at-tentiorfof
the public has been a
long time interest of Adams. "I
think a lot of the information
provided to students is inac­curate,
and that's just as bad as
not having any information at
all," she said in a recent inter­view
in her office at Bennett
College.
A lot of the problem in pro­viding
accurate information is
that "most of the writing (on
this subject) has been done by
non-African writers/' she add­ed.
'*The best way to find out
about-a~people is to get the in­formation
from those people —
that's why I went to Africa" last
summer.
. On' that trip, to Senegal,
organized by the National Con­ference
of Artists, Adams found
that "the only difference bet­ween
African artists and Afro-
American artists is distance."
At a joint exhibit in Senegal, "it
was amazing — you couldn t tell
who did what," which shows
that "visual art is a universal
language because of the visual
syrpbols." As a result of that
trip, Adams theh'cHd'a project
on the influence of Senegal! ar­tists
on European artists.
Another project she started at
Bennett, after earning her doc­toral
degree from Ohio
State University, was "Dial-An-
Artist." The purpose was to ex­pose
students to accurate infor­mation
about Afro-American
artists.
The course, titled Dial-An-
Artist Afro-American Art
History, was structured around
an amplified telephone hookup,
installed in the art classroom.
• See Adams. PaggT^y Adams1
^ w - t r i g ^ f i t j f\.C>
••) • ) , LYr f\Lr Gordon named
Citicorp Fellow
April Gordon, a freshman at Ben­nett
College, is a newly-named Fel­low
in the Citicorp Fellows Pro-gram.
She is one of
40 students at
United Negro
College Fund
schools who re­ceives
an annu­al
scholarship
of $2,500, plus
• a Citicorp offi­cer
who serves
as mentor
throughout the
student's col­lege
years. Gordon's mentor is Heil-wig
Higgins, vice president of Citi­corp
Retail Services, New York
City.
The fellows were honored at an
April dinner held at the.Martin Lu­ther
/ King Memorial Library in
Washington, D.C.
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Eden Student At Bennett
Is R&Hpient Of Awards
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Greensboro News & Record, Sunday, May 11, J986
Bennett selects dean of students m
Donna Williams of Eden, a
sophomore at Bennett College in
Greensboro, is one of a select group
of students recognized during
Recognition* Day exercise on' 'tllirt
college campus.
She was presented the Cressie
Gordon
Thomas Haven Book Scholarship for
outstanding academic achievement,
the Florence Reeves Award- for
service to the college community,
the Gerald Truesdale Health Science
Award for the highest' cumulative
average among sophomores in
health science Studies and the
Performing Arts Company Service
Award fa addition, she was "In-'
ducted into the Beta Kappa Chi
Science Honor Society.
Williams is the daughter' of Mrs.
Margaret Reece of 121^ S. Hundley
Drive, Eden.
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Donna Williams
Dorothy J. Harris has been
named dearr of students at Bennett
College.
In announcing the appointment at
the college's recent Recognition Day
service, Dr. Isaac H. Miller Jr. said
Harris' long association with the col­lege
as instructor and administrator
provides the experience essential to
reinforce linkage between all func­tions
within student development
and the total college community.
Harris received her undergradu­ate
and graduate degrees from N.C.
A&T State University, and began
her professional career as a public
school teacher. In 1969, following a
stint as curriculum consultant for
the Institute of Services to Educa­tion
at Washington, D.C, she be­came
an instructor of physical
sciences at Bennett. She was instru­mental
in establishing a comprehen­sive
freshman studies program and j
directed the federally-supported de­velopmental
studies program in the
early 1970s.
Harris took leave from Bennett to
complete doctoral studies at Rut­gers
University and, in 1983, re-
Dorothy J. Harris
turned to Bennett as associate dean
of academic support program.
Harris is a member of St. Stephen J
United Church of Christ and vices
president of its Board of Trustees. |
She is a member of the Alpha Kappa [
Alpha Sorority.
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TRIBUNE
MOUNT OLIVE, N. C.
MAY-13-86
iss Bowden
awarded
scholarship
Laurinda Katrice Bowden, 19, a
sophomore at Bennett College in
Greensboro,' was among students
honored recently at the college's
annual recognition day activities.
She was presented the $3,000 Joanne
Blackstone-Boyette scholarship.
Miss Bowden is majoring in the
area of Clothing and Textiles.
A 1984 graduate of Southern
Wayne High School, she is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Bowden of route S, Dudley. Bowden
is FFA instructor and advisor at
Southern Wayne and Mrs. Bowden is
a seventh-grade teacher at Mount
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(ii--•—-. ick Gomnirarrity $50,000
"By Ruthell Howard
Peacemaker'Staff Writer
A retired, white' Greensbo
• theatre busir ess woman g
; $50,000 .back tothe black
• munity last week to show n
appreciation for the black
band enjoyed beginning in the
husband, Max, came to
-Greensboro 55 years ago to pur
chase the . closed Palace
Theatre on East Market btree
and open it as the city's f
"theatre-.that-catered., to t
: rpsidents. "That venture ga
the couple" their* start in t
theatre business, and led
couole's opening of an
black, community-located
theatre, the Gem on South As
, Street, as well as the
eatre in High Point, which
LAURINDA BOWDEN
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also catered to blacks, and
several drive-in', theatres in
North Carolina and Virginia..;
Not forgetting the financial
catalyst Greensboro's black
community'- provided, Mrs.
Zager; in a tearful presentation
last Thursday night, ..-gave.
$25,000 checi-s to N.C. A&T
^State University and Bennett
College, the city's two
historically-black education in­stitutions.
V'My husband would be so pro­ud
that a donation was made to
the. black community'' said
. - . Zager, who noted that her
|. special love for Greensboro and
--'•'the black people who gave us
... our start" moved her to make
the donations to the two schools.
; "I'm not only doing this to
help the colleges, I'm doing it
because people should know
about what a good job A&T and
C1A&T-Bennett
are doing in this com­munity,"
Mrs. Zager added.
•Mrs. Zager, whose husband
died last year, made her
presentation during an evening
banquet at the Greensboro
Sheraton attended by a
20-member audience that in­cluded
members of her family ,
and officials from both schools.
• During what she called her
"finest hour," Mrs. Zager said .
| she wished she could do more
for Bennett and A&T.
A&T Vice Chancellor for
Development Albert E. Smith
said the school will place a pla-aue
in the school's theatre in
honor of the late Mr. Zager, and
A&T Chancellor Edwdard B.
Fort along with Bennett Presi­dent
Isaac Miller said the dona­tions
will provide much-needed
full length stage curtains, por-
• table props and lighting fixtures
at the two schools.
Smith added, "For a long
time, we've needed full stage
length drapes in the Paul
Robeson Theatre. We hope that
within the next year, you can
come back and be the first per­son
to draw the curtain."
Fort, stressing the impor­tance
of A&T's theatre, cited
the accomplishments of Arnold
Pinnix, a graduate of the school
who was the first student from a
Southern university to win the
Lorraine Hansberry award for
playwriting. "That's an exam-
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